God Is Light

Q: What does the Bible say about God's light?

The Bible states that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5). The scripture teaches us that God is light, which symbolizes His pure holiness and inexpressible brilliance. In 1 John 1:5, it is declared that 'God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.' This signifies the absolute purity and perfection of God. Light represents truth, righteousness, and holiness, whereas darkness signifies sin, ignorance, and the absence of truth. Therefore, understanding that God is light helps believers recognize His nature and their need to walk in alignment with Him, embracing His truth and holiness.

Q: How do we know God’s sovereignty is true?

God's sovereignty is evident through His power and control over all creation and His divine plan (Romans 8:28-30). The doctrine of God's sovereignty is foundational in Reformed theology, emphasizing that God has supreme authority over all things. Romans 8:28 states, 'And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.' This underscores that God orchestrates all events in accordance with His divine will and purposes. Additionally, Ephesians 1:4-5 shows that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, highlighting His sovereign choice in salvation. Believers can trust that God governs every aspect of their lives for their ultimate good and His glory.

Q: Why is fellowship important for Christians?

Fellowship is vital for Christians as it leads to joy and support in faith (1 John 1:3-4). Fellowship among believers is crucial as it reflects their unity in Christ and the shared experience of His grace. In 1 John 1:3-4, John writes that he proclaims the message of eternal life so that believers may have fellowship with him and with the Father and the Son, leading to complete joy. This fellowship is not merely social but deeply spiritual, built upon the foundation of the Gospel. As Christians gather, they encourage one another, share burdens, and grow together in their understanding of God's truth. This communal aspect of faith strengthens individuals and reinforces the collective mission of the Church to glorify God.

Q: How does God reveal Himself to us?

God reveals Himself primarily through His Word and through the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:14). God's self-revelation occurs in multiple ways, with the primary means being through Scripture and the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ. John 1:14 states, 'And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.' This verse emphasizes that Jesus is the ultimate revelation of God, showing us His character, will, and plan for redemption. Additionally, the Scriptures illuminate our understanding of God’s nature, guiding us in truth and exposing our own sinfulness. Through prayer, worship, and preaching, God continues to manifest His presence and truth to His people.

For while the Lord our God is
good, His mercy is forever sure. His truth at all times firmly
stood, And God will make it through. You may be seated. OK, go back to 1 John with me
again, 1 John, and let's read the first three verses again. That which we have, which was
from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen
with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
handled of the word of life. for the life was manifested,
and we have seen and bear witness and show unto you that eternal
life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us. That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with
us. And truly our fellowship is with
the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. The apostles were ear
witnesses, eyewitnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is a glorious
person and work and they went about everywhere declaring, preaching,
bearing witness of him. That's what John is writing in
verse four. He says, and these things right
we unto you, that your joy may be full." They not only went
about preaching, but God had them write down the things that
they heard and had seen. They wrote the Gospels and the
Epistles about the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the theme of all
of God's Word. And John says that you, this
is why. We preach and write that you
may have fellowship with us. He's writing to the church or
those who were gathered together in Christ's name that you. You each of you. To that might
have fellowship. That you might be in this fellowship
with us. And he says that your joy. might be full, but you might
be full of joy, fellowship and joy. He said, we write, we preach
to you that you, by God's grace, might be put in this fellowship
and that you might have this joy that we have. Now, if God
Almighty, if God the Holy Spirit, through the preaching of his
word, through the preaching of the gospel, and this is what
God uses, If he causes you to know him, know him. If he reveals
to you, that's what the word manifest meant. He was manifest
unto us, John said, he was revealed to us. We didn't know him before,
but he revealed himself to us. He came to us personally. And
God is still doing that. He's still doing that personally.
Christ said, my sheep hear my voice. They hear from me. He's still
doing it. And if God Almighty, God the
Holy Spirit, through the preaching of the gospel, reveals himself
to you, the true God, the living and true God, and reveals the
Lord Jesus Christ, He who is our salvation, and
gives you repentance toward God, true repentance toward God, Against
thee and thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight.
Thou must be clear when you judge and just when you speak and clear
when you judge. And faith, a real need for the
Lord Jesus Christ and a hunger and a thirst after his righteousness
and a real interest in him and what he did. If God does that,
and it's God's work, if he does that, Then he adds you to the
body of believers, the fellowship of the saints. He makes you a
member of the body, puts you into this fellowship, and along
with that fellowship, he gives you joy. Scripture says unspeakable. Hard to put into words. Joy,
unspeakable, and full of glory. Fellowship. Let's just think
a minute about this thing of fellowship, what it is. Fellowship
of the mystery, fellowship of the gospel, fellowship If you
break the word down, it's a pretty good way to think about it. Fellowship. Fellows in the same
ship. That you might have fellowship
and that your joy might be full. Joy unspeakable, full of glory.
The disciples, it seemed, were always in a ship, weren't they,
with the Lord. If he wasn't in it, he was nearby.
And there was a reason he wasn't in it, to show them that they're
helpless without him. But the disciples, oh, were they
full of joy while the Lord was with them in that little ship? The fellows in the same ship,
full of glory. What kind of glory did they see
when the Lord was in the ship? Do you remember how he stilled
the raging billows? And we've seen, do no less, those
that go down in ships, do business in deep waters. God's people
still do business in deep waters, afflictions and trials and difficulties
of the Lord's making. And he comes walking and stills
the ocean in our heart. Fellows in the same ship. It's
a good, I like this word, fellowship. Fellows in the same ship. Anybody
in here in the Navy? Nobody? Nobody in the Navy? Roberta, you weren't in the Navy? Well, anyway, if you were, you'd
know what this was talking about. I was in a ship for a while,
anyway, long enough to enter into this illustration. Fellows
that are in a ship. They live in that ship. That's
where they live. They all live in it. They eat, drink and sleep
or rest in that ship. That's where they rest in that
ship. That's where they eat in that
ship. That's where they drink in that
ship. They commune together. They talk
together in that ship, and generally it's about the ship. That's just
the way it is with sailors. They serve the ship. Everything
they're doing is somehow or another related to the ship. They are carried by, they are
upheld by, they are contained in, or that is, kept by the ship. All of them. They're all just
alike in this, that their safety depends on the ship. And they're
all going in the same direction. Why? Because they're in that
ship. If that ship makes it to its
destination, so do they. Isn't that a good word? The fellowship. What is the ship here? It's the
ark, Christ. Christ is that ark. Noah. Noah's ark. You remember the
story of Noah's ark? It said that God blessed all
that were in the ark with Noah. And John, it says that ark made
it through the stormy weather, through all that overflowing
scourge of God's wrath that destroyed every living thing but those
that were in the ark with Noah. And Christ is the ark of his
people and he's Noah. He's the captain of our salvation,
isn't it? So that's what this is a good
word in fellowship, but you also may have fellowship. And he says,
truly, our fellowship is with the father and with his son.
We, God's people, we love one another and we love to see one
another and we love to spend time with one another. But now the principal reason
why we come here to this house the real reason why we meet together.
This is not a social club this is not a poor man's country club
as some have called the church is not a YMCA where children
can have fun. But. Our fellowship truly is
with the father and with his son, we come here to hear from
God, we come here to worship our father. We come here to to
worship his son, our fellowship is around the gospel. Of God,
the father, son and Holy Spirit. Our life, like that fellowship,
those fellows in that ship, our life is in him. Christ, our life,
shall appear. Then shall we appear with him
in glory. We eat, we drink at the same table, don't we? This
is the table. We rest. We rest in him. We commune together. We come
here. What do we talk about? What is
it we're taking up with? Our captain. We serve this. Fellowship were carried by were
kept by the power we come here because this keeps us this gospel
were kept by this power of God. And we're carried away with it.
We're going to take and we're taken up with this fellowship
there is no fellowship outside of the family there's no. No fellowship, no real fellowship,
because the world is not going in the direction we're going,
and they have no interest. All right, verse 4, he said,
And these things we write unto you about Christ and His blessed
fellowship, that your joy may be full. These things are written
for your joy. Paul, one time, the Apostle Paul,
I was in a ship, and he was God's man, and God wasn't through with
him. Paul went through a great deal,
a great deal. He was actually stoned and killed
one time, but God raised him. God wasn't through with him.
He's immortal, see, as all of God's people are, until God is
through with them here, and then they're truly immortal. But the
apostle was in a ship. He was a prisoner in that ship.
Or was he? He was in a prison, a prisoner
in that ship, and that ship was in peril. Was in danger of being
shipwrecked. And the sailors in that ship
and everyone in that ship was afraid, greatly afraid, and Paul
uttered these words. while in that ship. He knew that
he had to get to Jerusalem. He knew that God, it was a course
for him to finish and it wasn't over yet. He knew. And he said,
he uttered these words to all those that were afraid, all those
in the ship that feared for their lives because of the perils out
there. He said, I exhort you, be of
good cheer. Cheer up, for there shall be
no loss of life among you, but of the ship. And I say the same thing, that
your joy may be full. Be of good cheer. Yeah, but I'm
going, oh, this thing's going to overcome me. It's not going
to. It's not going to. You're not
going to perish. You're not going to perish, except
he said, but he said this. He went on to say, except you
abide in the ship, you cannot be saved. There were some fellows in that
ship that were letting down lifeboats. Do you remember the story? They
were letting down lifeboats, and they thought, we've got to
get in these little boats and start rowing. No, he said, fellas, cast yourselves
on the mercy of God. Cut the ropes of those boats. Don't depend on your rowing.
Stay in the ship. God's going to get us there. And this ship, I say, for your
joy, this ship is headed for Fair Canaan's shore. This ark
will rest on Yon Mountain. Except you abide in the ship,
though, it cannot be saved. Stay with us. All in Christ are
going to make it. Rejoice! These storms are not
going to Overcome us, rejoice, I say. And again, rejoice. I see land ahead. It's on the
horizon. Yes, I do. Do you see it? Stay
in the ship. Verse five, he says, though,
this is the message that we have heard of him, of Christ. This is the message that we have
heard of him. And declare unto you, this is the message, that
God is light. and in him is no darkness at
all. Go with me to 1 Timothy chapter
6. This is the message, John writes,
that we heard of the Lord Jesus Christ, that God is light. God is light. Now, light, this
is a difficult thing to really declare, because no man
has really seen the light in its fullness. The light, light
he's speaking of here is, God is light, meaning in its brilliance,
in its brightness, inexpressible. John, you remember back there
where John is trying to describe the indescribable one and he
says that? He says that no comparison can
be made to the incomparable Christ and. I thought about this. Anyone
who does. Anyone who does. Anyone who makes
any comparisons. Compares God to anything or anyone. Anybody who does that anyone
who makes a likeness. of God, of Jesus or whatever,
hadn't seen him. They don't know him. They don't
know him. And, you know, I know people
are ignorant, but it's blasphemy to God to compare him to anything
lower than himself. He said this in Isaiah, he said,
to whom will you compare me? He said, what likeness will you
give me? But yet men and women still do
it, don't they? Foolishly. And I hesitate to
repeat these things, but you see it everywhere and it's getting
worse and worse. They say things like God is like
Hallmark cards, he carried enough to give the very best. God is
like a greeting card. They say things like God is like
Coca-Cola. He's a real thing. Now, they
may think that is clever. But it's blasphemy. They say
God's love is like a mother's love. That's blasphemy. If a mother. Has any true love for her child. Then she got it from God, not
vice versa. God is love. You don't compare
him. He's the one to be compared to.
You don't compare him to anything. He's the standard by which all
is measured. And everything comes far short,
you see. It brings him down to compare
him to anything or anyone. One time, the Lord said to his
disciples, he asked his disciples, he said, whom do men say that
I am? Whom do men say that I am? Well,
they said, some say that you're Elijah. Some say that you're John the
Baptist. Some say that you're a great
prophet, maybe even Samuel that's come back. Now, if someone said
that about me, if someone was saying that I was like Elijah,
it would be a great compliment to me, wouldn't it? I would be
honored. I'd feel unworthy of that comparison. Or John the Baptist, greatest
man born of woman. But it wasn't a compliment to
the Lord Jesus Christ. It brought him down. God is not
a man. God became a man. But he said,
who do you say that I am? He said, thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. You're much higher. You're incomparable. Well, look at 1 Timothy chapter
6, verse 15. I love this. Verse 15. It talks about the appearing
of the Lord Jesus Christ, who in his times he shall show. That
is, in the last time he will show who, just who is the blessed
and only potentate. There's millions of people all
over the world that call a shriveled up little old dying man with
Parkinson's disease, call him the Pope, the Holy Father. He's a rotten, no-good sinner who has elevated himself to the
place of God, and he's a liar deluding millions of souls. There's only one potentate. There's only one with a crown
on his head. It ain't a silly fish hat. It's
a crown, and He's the Lord Jesus Christ. Only one mediator between
God and men, not that man in Rome, but the God-man in heaven,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Only one. It's not Mary, the
Queen of Heaven. She is not the Queen of Heaven. She's seated with the rest of
the sinners, saved by grace, worshiping Him who sits on the
throne. Same with Peter, same with John,
same with all of them. He is the only potentate, the
King of kings and Lord of lords, verse 16, who only hath immortality,
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no
man hath seen nor can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. Do you say amen to all
that? If you've seen Him, you do. If
you've heard Him, you do. Now, only one. No man can say. Dwelling in a
light which no man can approach unto. That imbecile over in Oklahoma. said one time that he saw Jesus,
he had a vision of Jesus, and he was 900 feet tall. You remember
that? He was 900 feet tall. Then it wasn't the Jesus Christ
scripture. Because he's bigger than that. He sits on the circle of the
earth. The heavens can't contain him. He saw, he had too much
pizza the night before, is what he had. Or that Nyquil was paying
tricks on him. Oh, he dwells in light, which
no, God is light. Light. That's John attempting
to declare, to describe the Lord Jesus Christ. Says that. Life. Word. Isn't it? That. Light. Light. Would someone describe the sun
to me? Anybody would like to take an
attempt? Well, it burns. It burns, does it? Well, you
know, fire burns. Yeah, but it really burns. How
hot? Well, it's hot. It's real hot.
How hot? Well, you don't even know. You can't even come close, can
you? But it's bright. How bright?
Really bright. You don't know the half of it.
Why, you don't know how bright. You can't even look at it for
five seconds without being blind. Right? There's some fella, some
fella that paints pictures whom they call the painter of light.
And he's real religious. And I despise him. Anyway, they
call him the painter of lights. He ain't never painted light. You can't paint light. You can't
paint the sun. People couldn't look at it. Could
they, Ron? If you could paint, they couldn't
look at it. Couldn't put it on their walls.
It's not an apt description. Compare God. You can't. Tell
us about it. Can't do that either. He's light. John says he's light.
Dwelling in light which no man can approach unto, Paul said.
God is light. I'm going to attempt to, though,
right now. Go back with me to Job 25, the book of Job, right
before Psalms. It's the book of Job. Job 25.
God is light in the sense of his pure holiness, his brilliant,
white holiness. unapproachable in holiness and
purity. Unapproachable in His holiness
and purity. This is why the Hebrews said,
Our God is a consuming fire. Look at Job 25 with me. Look
at it. It says in verse 4 through 6,
How then can man be justified with God? That is, how can man
be declared holy? with God, how can he be clean
that is born of a woman? Behold, even to the moon it shineth
not. Yea, the stars are not pure in
God's sight, how much less man that is a worm." And just think, they call these
people out in Hollywood stars. He's the bright and morning star,
the sun of righteousness. God is light, as in his pure
holiness, purity and holiness. God is light in his truth. Go
back to our text, 1 John 1. God is light concerning his truth,
the true God. He said he's called the living
and true. God. Everything about God is
true. God is truth. Christ is the truth. Christ is the truth. Things are true because he said
them. Right? Because he is the truth. God who cannot lie. He is the
truth. Christ is the truth. Look at
our text. Verse 5 says, that God is light
and in him is no darkness at all, no darkness at all. When someone does not know something,
when there's someone who does not know something, we say about
that person, we say he's in the dark. You ever said that? Oh, he's in the dark about that.
That's what we say is called ignorance, being in the dark. Well, God knows all things, sees
all things. Brother Ed Berry told us, related
to us what an old preacher said to someone years ago. He said, I like this, he said
to a fellow, does it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs
to God? Some things occur to us. Oh,
it didn't occur to me. Now it does. Things happen, that
is. Things are revealed to us. Things
happen we weren't expecting. Things, we learn something. God
doesn't learn anything. In him is no darkness at all. At all. No darkness of sin. He's pure. He's light. No darkness
of sin. No variable, as James said, no
variable unless he doesn't change or shadow a turning. Do you remember that? James 1,
17. No shadow of turning. He is the father of lights. Well,
in him, no darkness at all. Turn very quickly to John 1 with
me, John chapter 1. And John wrote this also, John
chapter 1. You know, everything Bad. Is related to darkness in. Everything
bad is called darkness, the rulers, the scripture talks about the
rulers of the darkness of this world. The darkness of sin, the
darkness of ignorance, he said, you're not in darkness even as
others, the darkness of hate. He says, He that hateth is in
darkness. Hell is called outer darkness. But God is light. In Him is no
darkness at all. Well, how? And Job or Bildad
asked that question back in Job 25. How then can man be judged?
How can we get to God? Paul wrote, No man hath seen
Him. He's unapproachable. How then can we get to God? You
can't. No man hath ascended unto God
at any time. You can't get there. Who shall
ascend unto the holy hill of the Lord? He came to us. Light was veiled. in flesh. Lights, God who is
light, which no man can...took upon him the likeness of sinful
flesh. Looked like a man? And most people still just see
him as a man. But John said, we've seen him. One day, the
Lord took three choice disciples up on the mountain to show them
who he really was. to behold his glory. Three choice
disciples, James, Peter, and John, took them up on a mountain
and he was, you remember, transfigured. That is, he peeled back, I like
to say, that plain brown wrapper. He took off the plain brown wrapper
that was flesh to show himself, who he was, God, and they hit
the dust. Paul, Saul of Tarsus, when God,
when Christ revealed His true self to him, he hit the dust.
It blinded him. You look at the sun, it'll blind
you. If you see Christ, and God Almighty
in mercy and electing grace has chosen us to do the same thing,
to show us His glory. Hadn't He? Taken us up on the
mountain, Mount Sinai, Mount Zion, to behold His glory. The only begotten of the Father.
This is what it says, John 1, verses 1 through 4. In the beginning
was the word and the word. Now, word means expression. They're words coming out of my
mouth right now, aren't they? I'm expressing something. You
don't know what I'm thinking. Unless you hear words. This is
what that means, the word, the expression. The outward expression
of God. We don't know God unless God
tells us who he is. We won't see God unless God appears
to us. The word was with God. The word
was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by him.
Who's it talking about? Any doubt who this is talking
about? The Lord Jesus Christ. All things were made by him.
And without him was not anything made that was made. In him was
life. And the light was the light of
men. Men are in darkness until the
light shines on them and in them. Saul of Tarsus was real religious
and real moral and real zealous for his God, but he didn't know
the living and true God until Christ, the light, shone on him. Until Christ revealed himself
to him. He didn't know who he was. And it says down in verse 14,
the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth, the light of men. There is no light, there is no
understanding. This light means, well, we have
the word enlighten, enlighten. We are in the dark until God
enlightens us. We're in the dark. black, there's nothing there,
no thoughts until thoughts come in our head. So we're enlightened
and God Almighty must enlighten us through Christ. John 3, look over at John chapter
3, God is light, Christ is light. Look at this, John chapter 3,
verse 19 through 21 says this, this is condemnation, that light
has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light.
because their deeds were evil. Our Lord said one time, people
that do what they do, they do it in darkness. Isn't that when
most crime is committed? Under the cover of darkness. The psalm says night and day
are alike to God, but there's no cover. It says all things
are naked and open before their darkness to us, but not God. In Him is no shadow. You can't
hide in the shadows. He sees all, knows all. Our Lord
said that their deeds are evil. They love darkness. Verse 20,
read on. Everyone that doeth evil hateth
the light. That goes for religion. People
don't want to hear the truth. The truth enlightens you, doesn't
it? The truth enlightens you as to what you are. Men and women
don't want to hear that. If you turn on a light, you go
in a dark room, it may look, it may look, you know, what little
light you have, it may look all right. And you know you need, if there's
no light at all, you can't see. At all. At all, you're blind
if there's no light. A little bit of light in there,
and it may look, but boy, if you turn on the light, a bright
light, you'll see everything in that room, won't you? Critters
running and scurrying, the cobwebs and the dirt and all that, won't
you? That's the way it is with God's Word. It's light. The entrance
of thy Word bringeth light. The Scripture says God's Word
reveals our dark heart to us. God's Word reveals our dark thoughts
to us, our ignorance to us, doesn't it? That's the first thing God's
Word does. It enlightens us to see just
how sinful and evil we are and how holy He is. Read on. It says,
Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Folks don't want
the gospel. Most people don't want the gospel
of God's sovereign mercy and grace to them. They don't want
that. Because that. The gospel of God's
sovereign mercy is an offense to men's sense of self-worth,
people think they that God needs them and they're doing God a
favor by accepting him. So they don't want to hear about
this sovereign mercy that everybody's of no value to God. People don't want to hear about
the gospel that must be revealed, that must be manifest to us,
because they think that they came up with it by their studying
and searching and religious works and all. They don't want to hear
that. Their deeds should be approved. But now, verse 21, he that doeth
truth. We might get to this in a minute,
doing the truth. Some people came to the Lord
one time and said, what must we do to do the works of God? And he said, this is the work
of God. This is what God accepts and
this is God's work. That you believe on him whom
he has sent. That means trust. That means
commit all to. That means reject everything
else, including yourself. to look to him. This is the work
of God. He that doeth truth, he that
truly believes Christ, cometh to the light, cometh to the light, that his deeds might be made
manifest. Show me, Lord. Show me. I'm in
darkness. Enlighten me. Show me who you
really are. Show me. And he does. He does. Well, look at John 8. Go over
John 8 real quickly. John chapter 8. John chapter
8. God is light. This is the message.
God is light. And in him is no darkness at
all. John 8, verse 12. Then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world. I'm it. So, if you don't know Christ, you're
in darkness. I am the light. Understanding, knowledge, wisdom,
it doesn't matter. I'm it. Of the world. That's it. The only one. He, look at this, I want to know
God's will for my life. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness. Oh, I need to know who to do
this with or who to go with or where. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness. But shall have the light of life.
The light of life. The light of life. Go back to
our text. Let me close with a few comments here in our text. Now,
he says in verse, so God is light. Christ is light. In him is no
darkness at all. If you're in him, no darkness. No darkness at all. If we say,
look at it, verses six and seven, if we say that we have fellowship
with him and walk in darkness, we lie. We're liars. We do not
the truth. If we say, well, you know, talk
is cheap. Our Lord said of the Pharisees,
they say, but they do not. They do not, if we say. Faith
is not all talk. Not it at all. We walk by faith. If we say,
if we say we have fellowship, that our fellowship, remember
what fellowship is? Fellowship with the Father and
with His Son. Fellows in the same ship. Fellowship of believers. We have fellowship with him and
walk in darkness alone. Outside of the light of the gospel.
If we walk in ignorance, we're lying. You know, there's. It's real sad. For someone to
deceive themselves, and James said. If we be hearers of the word
and only and not doers, we deceive ourselves. You've got to be pretty
deceitful to deceive yourself, don't you? If we walk in ignorance,
we don't know the true God, we're easily led astray by anyone or
anything. Our Lord said, if you follow
me, you won't walk in darkness. If we walk in sin, God's people aren't living clandestine
lives. They don't love darkness. God has delivered them. It's
not saying that God's people don't fall into sin, that they
don't fall into the gutter every now and then, that they don't
slip back and fall into a dark period in their life. But that's not where they stay.
They don't like that. They aren't lovers of darkness.
There was a time when all of God's people did. They loved
darkness rather than light. That's what they wanted. I don't
want to hear the gospel. I don't want to go to church.
I'm fine the way I am. But now they've come to the light. Those who are in the world are
in outer darkness. He said, your children of light,
the companions of God's people are not in outer darkness. How
can light have fellowship with? The apostle is just stating a
fact, how can light? Can light and darkness coincide?
No way. Darkness doesn't love light.
Darkness won't cohabit with light. Darkness wouldn't want to light
around. How can it? It can't. Men love darkness. Light dispels the darkness. Light,
truth exposes. You can't hide from the light.
So he says, the fact is, verse 7, if we walk in the light as
he is in the light, if we walk, that is, going in a certain direction
in the light, Walking is going in a certain direction, isn't
it? The world is not going in the same direction where God's
people are headed. Can two walk together except
they be aggrieved? Where are you going? Well, I'm
forgetting the things that are behind. I'm pressing toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God. And where are
you going? I'm going back. I'm going after career. I'm going
after this. I'm going after the world. I'm
going after all of Augusta. And then we can't walk together. We can't walk together. We walk
in the same direction, and to walk is to go with somebody. It said Enoch walked with somebody.
Who did Enoch walk with? I'll tell you who I want to walk
with. I want to walk with who Enoch walked with. Don't you?
I want to happen to me what happened to Enoch. Don't you? It says
Enoch walked with God. And to walk together except they'd
be agreed, you know, this is the attitude. Of. All of God's people and Psalm 119
128. Somebody can quote that. David said. I esteem all that precepts concerning
all things to be right. And I hate every false way, everything
that's not in keeping. I meant to quote that with our
study on the law this morning. Everything that's not in keeping
with God's word, I hate it. David went on to say in Psalm
119, or before that, he said, I am a companion of them that
fear thee. That's who my companions are,
because that's the direction we're headed. Walk by faith,
walk with God, walk with God's people. We have fellowship with
the saints. And he that doesn't love his
brother, we're going to look into that next time. He that
doesn't love his brother, loving someone means cohabit with them.
Can't live without them. Bury your love. It's in darkness. It's in darkness. By this shall
all men know you're my disciple, not what you say. but who you companions are. That's what Christ said. And
he said, if we walk in that light as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another. This is it. This is our fellowship. And can I have 30 more minutes? The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanses us from all sin. Everyone in Christ, everyone
in Christ, their past is gone. Boy, now isn't that a joyful
sound? The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son. He's just stating the fact. Those
that are in Christ, in the fellowship, those who walk in the light,
that is the light of the gospel, the light of Christ, walk in
by faith in Him, in Christ, walk with God's people that are in
the fellowship, They have joy over the gospel. The blood of
Jesus Christ has completely cleansed them from all unrighteousness. Every sin, the handwriting of
ordinances is blotted out. Every sin is gone. They have no record anymore. They're new creatures in Christ. Blessed are they that know the
joyful sound. All right. Sherry, if you'll come up, we'll
sing a closing hymn. Number 34 in the Green Hymn.
Number 34. Number 34. Immortal, invisible,
God-only, wise, in light, inaccessible, hid from our Ah, stand with me
as we sing that. Number 34. Okay. Immortal, invisible, God only,
why? In light inaccessible, hid from
our eye. Most blessed, most glorious,
the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, our great name we
praise. Unresting, unhastening, and silent
as light, Nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might. Thy justice, like mountains high
soaring above, Like mountains high soaring above, Of goodness
and love. We have service Wednesday night
as usual. 730, Wednesday night. If for
some reason you are not going to be here, remember next Sunday,
one service only, 10 o'clock next Sunday. Let's sing the last
verse. Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, Thine angels
adore Thee, all veiling their sight. A praise we but render
From heaven to thee

God Is Light

What does the Bible say about God's light?

How do we know God’s sovereignty is true?

Why is fellowship important for Christians?

How does God reveal Himself to us?

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